unpleasant or difficult to do and unlikely to bring you any rewards or thanks from anyone:
Sometimes being a mother and a housewife felt like a thankless task.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is thankless a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, thankless is tagged as adjective.
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